| Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1757 - 590 pages
...common grajhoppers, and had brown fpotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their firft appearance was towards the latter end of March, the wind having been for ibme time from the fouth. In the middle of April their numbers were fo vaftly increafed, that in the... | |
| Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1808 - 520 pages
...which I saw, ann. 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grashoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their...wind having been for some time from the south. In the middie of April, their numbers were so vastly increased, that in the heat of the day, they formed themselves... | |
| Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1808 - 516 pages
...which I saw, aan. 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grashoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their first appearance wa> towards the latter end of March, the wind having been for some time from the south. In the middle... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...which 1 saw anno 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grasshoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their first appearance was towards the latter en4 of March, the wind having been for some time from the south. In the middle of April their numbers... | |
| John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1814 - 886 pages
...common graihoppers, and had brown fpotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their firft appearance was towards the latter end of March, the wind having been for fome time from the fouth. In the middle of April, their numbers were fo vaftly increafed, that in the... | |
| Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...the following account of them: "They were much larger than our grasshoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their...first appearance was towards the latter end of March. In the middle of April, their numerous s.varms, like a succession of clouds, darkened the sun. In the... | |
| William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 pages
...which I saw, anno 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grasshoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their...towards the latter end of March, the wind having been some time from the south. In the middle of April their numbers were so vastly increased, that in the... | |
| Religion - 1828 - 580 pages
...which 1 saw, anno 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grasshoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their first appearance wa» to1J_I TtJ XT .. wards the latter end of March, the wind hsriii'.r been some time from the south.... | |
| Edward Robinson - English language - 1833 - 384 pages
...which I saw, AD 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grasshoppers, and had brown spoited wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow. Their...towards the latter end of March, the wind having been some time from the south. In the middle of April, their numbers were so vastly increased, that in the... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1836 - 938 pages
...the following account of them : " They were much larger than our grasshoppers, and had brow7i spotted aoh In the middle of April their numerous swarms, like a succession of clouds, darkened the sun. In the... | |
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